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Singer 96-inch extra long tape measure is accurately printed in both inches and centimeters. This flexible tape measure is perfect for measuring curved or flat surfaces. Metal ends keep the tape from fraying.

Fashion Design

Costume College
A 3-day course near Los Angeles, perfect for teens and parents who want to design their own costumes. This is a review by someone who attended. Check out the whole Recollections site for ideas for historic costumes for plays, events, or Halloween.

Quilting

History of Baby Quilts: Patterns for Crib & Doll Quilts
Make doll and baby quilts typical of different periods in history. Each pattern includes some history and information on how the quilt would have been made during that time. There’s a nine patch that could be made by most children and a log cabin that an older child could make. Both sewing and history would be learned from each pattern.

Quilting Board
Quilters at all levels exchange information, make new friends and swap fabric and blocks here.

Quilting With Children
This page is designed to describe the projects I have organized and give you ideas, techniques, and resources for working with children in making quilts.

Sewing Machine

Looking for a child-friendly sewing machine? This is without a doubt the best option. Not only is there a Derby Line machine for everyone’s favorite colors, but the presser foot is specially designed to prevent little hands from finding their way underneath the needle. Don’t be fooled! This machine is not a cheap toy likely to break and plagued by poor stitch quality. It can create some fantastic work for children of all ages. The Derby Line from Janome features nine different color options: Pink Lightning, Turbo Teal, Graceful Gray, Fastlane Fuchsia, Lady Lilac, Mystical Mint, Citrus Circus, Marine Magic or Purple Thunder.

How a sewing machine works

Sewing Projects

Bunkhouse Sewing
Sewing tips, projects, and activities for students and teachers. Use this section to supplement your sewing experience with free puzzles and games, sewing tips, activities, projects, and curriculum guides.

Curtain sewing directions
Here’s a nice, easy entry-level sewing project. This would be a great project to allow teens to decorate their own bedroom.

Kids Sewing Projects
Our goal here at Kids Sewing Projects is to establish a website with free information, projects and easy lessons for kids to learn sewing. Once kids get to handle their own sewing machine it is like a whole new world opens up to them.

Sew Trendy
Teens create or embellish a sewn item from either the fashion or home décor arenas. Then individual submissions will be judged and awarded in a Scholastic Style Show.

Sewn Circuits
During this activity, you’ll construct a working and wearable circuit. You’ll experiment with a battery, conductive thread, conductive tape and an LED to learn how to connect a circuit, and then design a way for it to work on a wrist cuff, a badge, or any other wearable item. Uses conductive sewing thread like this.

Teen Sew
A teen’s guide to sewing. A young seamstress talks about her sewing project successes and failures.

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A2Z Homeschooling

A to Z Home's Cool, since 1997, has been the premiere destination site for those researching homeschooling, those who have decided to homeschool and are now looking for new homeschool groups and friends, as well as for families looking for free and low-cost educational materials for their children, homeschooled or not. Also known fondly as "A2Z Homeschool" we have been expanding into social networking and mobile sites. We are adding complete homeschool resources into our site for those who wish to pick and choose their homeschool curriculum freely. We are a religion-neutral homeschool site. We help you understand all the options available in the world of homeschooling.